Five months into a war Donald Trump said would last only weeks, the Iran conflict has so far cost the US tens of billions of dollars and brought about "the end of an era" in American military strategy.
There are some really good responses if you search “US military doctrine” or just “military doctrine” with “only comments” checked.
The TLDR is that the us military isn’t this expensive or structured this way because it’s good for the US. Its this way because it’s good for the military industrial consultant industry, and by and large, US military doctrine is captured by this industry. Over decades,they selected for systems and manners of thinking which were profitable and supportive of them; not of US citizens or the world at large, or anyone but themselves really.
The US military isn’t built to be a good fighting force. Its built to be an expensive, very dependent on very expensive people and things fighting force. And sometimes those two things overlap. But anyone even moderately versed in military doctrine knows this already; that there are some very structural rules which determines who wins and loses. Its much more boring than F35s and reaper drones.
There are some really good responses if you search “US military doctrine” or just “military doctrine” with “only comments” checked.
The TLDR is that the us military isn’t this expensive or structured this way because it’s good for the US. Its this way because it’s good for the military industrial consultant industry, and by and large, US military doctrine is captured by this industry. Over decades,they selected for systems and manners of thinking which were profitable and supportive of them; not of US citizens or the world at large, or anyone but themselves really.
The US military isn’t built to be a good fighting force. Its built to be an expensive, very dependent on very expensive people and things fighting force. And sometimes those two things overlap. But anyone even moderately versed in military doctrine knows this already; that there are some very structural rules which determines who wins and loses. Its much more boring than F35s and reaper drones.